Our master is now satisfying your wish, thus freeing you from the bonds of karma.'
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

“But,” he said, “Mouston is not so young as he was, my dear fellow; besides, he has grown fat and perhaps has lost his fitness for active service.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

“May I not see you again?”
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

“Indeed, Sir,” returned I, “you are mistaken; I never supposed you would offer a ticket without wishing it should be accepted; but it would answer no purpose to mention the reasons which make me decline it, since they cannot possibly be removed.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Other motives, if not simultaneously, yet almost immediately, come into his consciousness, and confronting the unworthy inclinations prevent them from ever being crystallised into deeds; thus causing them to resemble the out-voted minority of an acting committee.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

'Nothing, your highness, 'cept trying to make the Nubians conform to the religion.' 'Well,' says old Mohammed, 'I not send you up there as a priest; I send you up to get a little money.
— from My Winter on the Nile Eighteenth Edition by Charles Dudley Warner

If you have not, read it; if you have, read it again; study it; make its noble sentiments your own, and do not fail to grave deep in your memories these immortal lines:— "We hold these truths to be self-evident; That all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed; that, whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such forms, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness."
— from Reading Made Easy for Foreigners - Third Reader by John Ludwig Hülshof

But since ye are also of the faithful, may I not serve you in any way before I go?"
— from The Refugees A Tale of Two Continents by Arthur Conan Doyle

You have seen much, must have learned much, and why may I not suppose you are become all that a sister's heart can desire?
— from Anna St. Ives by Thomas Holcroft

But when he saw Grimes actually wash, he stopped, quite astonished; and when Grimes had finished, and began shaking his ears to dry them, he said: "Why, master, I never saw you do that before." "Nor will again, most likely.
— from The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley

895 Quoth he, I do profess and swear, And will perform what you enjoin, Or may I never see you mine.
— from Hudibras, in Three Parts, Written in the Time of the Late Wars by Samuel Butler

"I'm just like an absolutely contented and placid old cow at the moment——" "I never saw you look less like anything," he said.
— from Dick Lester of Kurrajong by Mary Grant Bruce

Who's the boss, you or I?” “Why, Mac, I never saw you this way before.
— from McTeague: A Story of San Francisco by Frank Norris

[105] the mesocarp is not succulent, yet, from their possessing the other qualities of the drupe, they receive the name.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Deposition to Eberswalde Volume 4, Part 1 by Various